Combination tool



A ril 27, 1926.

J. L. HUGHES COMBINATION TOOL Filed July 23, 1921 4 mm, W

Patented Apr. 27, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

:ronn L. HUGHES, or TULSALOKVLAHOMA, AssIeNo'n or onnnntr TO nLB-un'r1v. W'YCOFE'OFF TULSA, OKLAHOMA.

coivmrna'rron TOOL.

Application filedil'uly 23, 1921.' Serial No. 487,150.

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, John L. HUGHES, a. citizen of the United States,residing at Tulsa, in the county of -'lul-'sa and State of t Oklahoma,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Tools,

of which the following is a specification.

This invention has as its object to provide an improved combination toolfor use by 1.0 carp-enters and builders, and the primary 'object of theinvention is to provide a tool which may. be conveniently employed inmarking off weather boarding so that the same may be accurately cut tothe required length without the necessityof following the tedious methodof procedure heretofore practiced.

More specifically, the invention contemplates the provision of a tooladapted for application to a weather board and to serve as astraightedge along which a pencilmay be drawn to indicate where the board is tobe cut off in order to fit it into place, the tool embodying means forabutment against the frame of a window or door a ainst which the weatherboard, is temporarily laid, and

thus indicate the required length of the board. a i

Another object of the invention is to pro- 0 vide a combination toolwhich, in addition to its use as above indicated, may be employed as atry-square and also as a scriber, so that the tool will prove generallyuseful to the workman employing the same.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure l is a view in elevation of the tool embodying the presentinvention, the View illustrating the manner in which the tool is to beemployed in marking off a weather board.

Figure 2 is an edge'e-levation of the tool.

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 1 disclosing a tool marked with amodified form v of scale and illustrating the manner in which the toolis to be employed in scribing circles. The tool embodying the inventioncomprises a stock 1. which has "perfectly flat faces and straightparallel lateral edges indi cated by the numeral 2. The stock 1 ispreferably formed from a length of bar metal which has its opposite endportions bent at right angles to the plane of the stock to provideabutment flanges indicated by thenu meral 3, the lateral edges of theseflanges being in'the planes of the corresponding lateral edges of thestock. his a matter of con venience, the stock may be provided adjacenteach lateraledge with scale t in inches and fractions of inches.

form of scale such as shown in Figure 3.

7 Both of the flanges 8 project from the same side of the stock 1, andin the use of the tool, for example in marking off a weather requiredlength and nailing it in place, the

weather board which is indicated bythe let- 7 then disposed flat againstthe outer face of the weather board with one of the other of itsflangesi l engaging squarely over the upper or lower edge of the board,as the case may be, and the tool is slid along the board until thelateral'edges of both of its said flanges abut against the adjacent'sideor edge of the door or window frame. A pen oil may then be drawn alongthat lateral edge 2 of thestocl: which is presented next to the saidframe, thus indicating the precise point at which the weather board isto be cut off in order to adapt it tofit exactly into place. i

It will be understood that when the tool will be employed insubstantially the manner recited above. That is to say it will be" dis-The scale may be the oneshown n Figure 1 or a modified board previous tocutting the board to the is'to be made use of as a try-square, it.

resting a 'ainst an edge of the material. It is to be unc erstood ofcourse that the flanges 3 will extend exactly at right angles to thelateral edges of the stock 1 so that each lateral edge of the stock willoccupy a. position at right angles to the plane of either flange. I

In order that the tool may be employed as a scriber, it isprovided witha pair of compasses the legs of which are indicated by the numeral. 5,these legs being pivotallymounted at their inner ends upon a threadedstud 6 which is secured to the stock 1 and projects from. that face ofthe stock opposite the face from which the lOO flanges project. Awingnut T is threaded on to the stud G and may be tightened to bind, thepivoted inner ends of the compass legs 5 so as to secure the said legsin positions ot adjustment. By loosening the nut 7, the compass legs maybe swung together and pivoted about the stud 6 so as to occupy forexample the position shown in Figure l of the drawing in which positionthe coinpass attachment will lie wholly within the bounds of the marginof the stock 1.. lVhen the attachment is to be made use of, the nut 7may be again loosened and the legs 5 may then be swung about the stud 6so that their scribing; ends will extend beyond the adjacent end of thestock as illustrated in Figure 3 of the lrawing, it being understoodteat after the compass legs have been relatively adjusted, the nut 7 isto be tightened so as to bind them in place whereupon the tool may beemployed in scribing circles by grasping the stock 1 and utilizing thisPOIF tion of the tool as a handle.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is:

A tool of the character described coniprising a gage member formed froman elongated strip of llat metal of an even width throughout its lengthto provide straight parallel side edges, side strips bcing benttransversely in spaced relation to its ends and having its bent endportions extending from one face of the intermediate portion of thestrip at right angles thereto, the outer face of the intern'iediateportion of said strip being provided with gage marltin s, said gagemarkings being disposed transversely thereon and in measuring relationto the inner face of one of the bent end portions a threaded studextending from the outer face of said strip intermediate the widththereof and adjacent one end of the intermediate portion, a pair ofsharp pointed compass legs pivoted on said stud for swinging movementfrom an inoperative position within the confines oi? the outer face ofthe intermediate portion of said strip to an extended operativeposition, and a nut upon said stud adapted to clamp said legsin adjustedpositions. Y

' In testimony whereof I aliix my signature.

JOHN L. HUGHES. [11. 8.

